[Solved] Black frames in animation rendering

[davorin]

This deserves a new thread (o;

During animation rendering either as movie or as individual images I get lots of black frames like in this short clip of 100 frames:

[J.C]

Unfortunately this is known issue in v16.x.x plugin. Have you updated you CUDA drivers?

[davorin]

So it should work on 3.08.5 - 15.3.4 ?

On macOS you can't update CUDA driver as there is only one drvier version per macOS build.

[J.C]

Are you using latest drivers release?
https://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cu ... river.html

The latest stable version that will not produce black frames is 15.3.4 or any other v3 based release.

[davorin]

Yes, that's the version I am using...

I did a clean install of macOS 10.13.6 on a H270 motherboard with i7-7700 and GXT1080...

So I switched back to 15.3.4 and let the animation run again....

Only installed 4.0RC7 due to license deactivation issues....

[J.C]

You can try exporting an animation to ORBX file and rendering it in standalone app if you need v4 features.

[davorin]

I tried once exporting a fluid simulation....generated two 105GByte files

Did now some frames...no black frames

[AndreasResch]

Hey.

I've also experienced black rederings in 16.2.8. Both in Preview and FInal renderings. Once the renderings are black, I have to start/stop Preview several times until the Preview renders normal again.

[davorin]

And when you go back to 3.08.5 - 15.3.4?

Did solve my problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD1iLF5XcTA

[J.C]

I just rendered 75 frames test sequence on 16.2.8.
9 frames were black